Nosferatu with Lily-Rose Depp: Casting, Release, Info… Everything you need to know about the remake of this legendary film!

It’s common knowledge that vampires are immortal (until they cross the path of the sun and their heart hits a wooden pole). While Dracula continues to be reborn on the big screen, Nosferatu will also return to theaters a little over a century after the original film, FW Murnau’s original horror classic.

Release date: When is Nosferatu coming out? Where can we see?

Expected to hit American theaters this Christmas, Nosferatu is coming to ring in the New Year with our company. The film is actually scheduled for release on January 1, 2025 in France. and in cinemas, where it will be distributed by Universal.

Casting: Who plays Nosferatu?

After Max Schreck and Klaus Kinski in Werner Herzog’s first remake in 1979, this creature will be played this time by Bill Skarsgård, a regular of transformations and monsters that we are once again told are unrecognizable. Which we are forced to believe at this point, due to the lack of the slightest image of him in the film.

Before him, Nicholas Hoult will play Thomas Hatter, who discovers Count Orlok’s castle in the Carpathians. and Lily-Rose Depp as his wife Helen, who falls in love with a vampire before he is traced back to 19th-century Germany.

After playing Max Schreck in Shadow of the Vampire, the story of the first Nosferatu, Willem Dafoe finds himself playing Count Orlock as Professor Albin Eberhart von Franz, the hunter inspired by Bulwer’s character in the original. Who was Van Helsing’s derivative? “dracula” By Bram Stoker.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson will play Friedrich Harding, Hutter’s friend, who should have a slightly more prominent role in this new film. As does his wife Anna, played by Emma Corinne.

Rounding out the cast are Simon McBurney (Nock, a businessman who has a telepathic connection to Orlok and sends Hatter into his clutches) and Ralph Ineson as Dr. Wilhelm Sievers.

All in front of Robert Eggers’ camera. which takes a detour from Viking mythology (the Northman) to return to the gothic horror of The Witcher, his debut film. But without Anya Taylor-Joy.

Story: What will Nosferatu say?

Simply put: if you want to know the story of Nosferatu, you take the story of Dracula and change the names. Because FW Murnau’s film is an unofficial adaptation of Bram Stoker’s novel that has not been confirmed by the rights holders.

Therefore, Robert Eggers’ version must retain many elements, from the overall plot to 19th-century Germany as the setting, including Count Orlok’s appearance, which is far removed from the seductive side often associated with vampires (but which was partially found. , Werner in Herzog’s film).

The rest is a mystery. But knowing the director, the horror must be more graphic than it was in 1922, and the result is just as stylized, but in its own way, far from the German expressionism of which the original Nosferatu was one of its most iconic representatives.

In the absence of a trailer, for now, we’ll have to go by the director’s word, which confirms that Ellen Hutter (Lily-Rose Depp) will be more central to the story and will be even more complicated. Recognize Bill Skarsgård as in it.

However, it will see you in French cinemas on January 1, 2025. Good luck.